Note Taker HD Lets You Take Notes with Your Fingers

Note Taker HD 3.0 was just released last month, and the new version added a wealth of features designed to help you stay organized and sketch quick diagrams and charts.

If you're fond of taking notes on your iPad while in classes, meetings, or during a brainstorming session, more and more apps are popping up designed to help you get your thoughts onto paper and organized quickly. Note Taker HD 3.0 was just released last month, and the new version added a wealth of features designed to help you stay organized, sketch quick diagrams and charts, quickly get your thoughts into the app, and when you're ready export those files so you can work with them on your computer.

The real benefit of Note Taker HD to other note-taking apps for the iPad is that it allows you to quickly zoom in and out on your notes, will automatically take your text and shrink it to fit the size of the page, and lets you write with your fingertips instead of having to use the keyboard.

Note Taker HD's inking ability is both a huge benefit and a drawback. The app is ink-only, meaning you can only input text using your finger or a stylus that works with the iPad like the Pogo Sketch. Unlike apps like HelvetiNote, Note Taker HD does not support text entry via on-screen or attached keyboard. However, the app does automatically shrink the text that you draw into the app with your finger to fit between the lines and save space if you want it to, and lets you draw around and annotate your text in different colors if you choose - just like using an actual pad and pen to take notes.

Note Taker HD also shows you a preview of your notes in the page list, so you can see all of your saved notes, scroll through them to find the one you want, and see how many pages each note has before you tap it again to read or edit. Once you've opened the note you want to edit or review, you can zoom and pan around the note if you want a closer look at a chart you've drawn or text you've entered.

Since Note Taker HD automatically shrinks your text and lines it up for you, the app has both an undo feature so you can quickly fix errors as you go, and an eraser that you can use to drag your finger along errors and mistakes to see them removed from your note. Once you've finished a note, you can save it, add tags, and organize your notes either by date created, tag, title, number of pages, and more.

The app also supports VGA output from your iPad, so if you have your iPad connected to an external display using the dock connector, you can project your notes on a wall or just show them on a larger screen for others to see while you work with them. The app also supports PDF export and the ability to send your notes via e-mail to others if you want to work with them on another device. Note Taker HD is available now in the iTunes App Store for $4.99. Back to top